After watching the Crane fly-out, we visited the Bird Ringing station to see what activity there was. We were lucky to be able to study a Bluethroat close-up and a Red Backed Shrike. Many Bluethroats have been ringed in Sweden in the autumn and recovered in Eastern Europe very slightly later but no winter recoveries have ever been reported so there is still no information where this species spends the winter.
We were also shown a Marsh Warbler, a species very close to the Reed Warbler (except in song), identified either by the length of the notch on the wing or by the ratio of beak length to diameter.
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